Mike later discovered his film was one of thousands across the world being shared on social media.

The Twitter hashtag #ufoattacktoturkey was trending as fear swept the globe.

Mike added: “My only regret is that I didn”t film it sooner. It was much brighter to start with and we kept walking towards it but it didn”t move.

“I saw a light aircraft with red lights fly under and that was much, much smaller. By the time I got to the Marina car park and decided to film it the lights were much much dimmer.”

It happened the day after social media all over the world went into panic mode with similar videos of lights being spotted over Turkey on November 27.

Mike said: “My wife and I spotted this very, very bright light that just stayed stationary – although my video is a little shaky where I zoomed in – but I know what I saw wasn”t an helicopter (totally no noise) and certainly not a Chinese Lantern (was stationary).

“It seemed brighter to start with.

“One of my daughters then sent me a link on Facebook about multiple UFO sightings in Turkey on 28 November which I found a little worrying.